Harper's Magazine: January 1992

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January 1992

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Victoria Kann SEE ALSO: Flags; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Signs and symbols; Social movements PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Victims, all? Recovery, co-dependency, and the art of blaming somebody else, from October 1991: Letter By John Bradshaw Letter By Barrie Sneed Letter By “Anonymous” Letter By Thomas Speers Letter By Arthur Hancock Letter By Mark McDonough Letter By Linda Gibson Letter By John and Linda Friel Letter By Joanne Murphy Letter By David Rieff PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Power, freedom, and the failure of theory By John P. Diggins SEE ALSO: Power (Social sciences); Radicalism PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Joe Marquette (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Portraits; Recreation; Swimming PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Tricks of the KGB trade By P. Lukyanenko and Cathy Young (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Proskurin, I.; Intelligence officers; Interviews; Secret service; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Desert fraud By Romona Washington SEE ALSO: Air pilots, Military; Deception; Ethics; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Personal narratives; Rodriguez, Ricky PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Remembering Pearl Harbor—too often By Robert B. Reich SEE ALSO: Metaphor; 1989-; 1989-1993; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Japan's latest trading scandal SEE ALSO: Sexism; Trading cards PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Poem Israel's American hostages By Haim Hefer PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Raising the Jewish question in Poland SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; 1989-; Poland PDF IMAGES Readings/Article One bandit's ethic By Dennis Lee Curtis SEE ALSO: Brigands and robbers; Curtis, Dennis Lee; Ethics; Robbery PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The art of the political draft SEE ALSO: Janklow, Bill; Career in politics; South Dakota PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Business meetings; Voting PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Rock the vote SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Rock music; Sound recording industry; Voting PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The media covers itself By John Dunn and Manny M. Aragon SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; New Mexico; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Fallout SEE ALSO: Compensation (Law); Legal status, laws, etc.; Marshall Islands PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Avoiding fumbles SEE ALSO: Football players; Interviewing in mass media; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo Happy shack By J. Beal (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); East River (New York); Graffiti; Industrial buildings; Manhattan (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Tints of the times SEE ALSO: Colors, Words for; Paint PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The conformity of office zaniness By Daniel Harris SEE ALSO: Office decoration; Personal paraphernalia PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Black magic, 9 to 5 By Laurel L. Olson SEE ALSO: Charms; Maintenance and repair PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo Swimmers By Annie Leibovitz (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Nudism; Swimmers; Swimming PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Obstacles and desire By Adam Phillips SEE ALSO: Case studies; Desire; Frustration PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Type-A tykes By Donna Goldberg SEE ALSO: Organizations & Bureaucracies PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Cartoon Mayberry L.S.D. SEE ALSO: LSD (Drug) PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The widower By Marco Lodoli PDF IMAGES
38-42	Readings/Fiction Think we'll go to plan B now By Marianne Wiggins PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Poem My books By Jorge Luis Borges PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article Who and what is American? The things we continue to hold in common By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Group identity PDF IMAGES
50-56	Fiction All stories are true By John Edgar Wideman PDF IMAGES
57-62	Capital letter/Article Settled: Why Bush will yield to Israel and “the lobby” By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: American Israel Public Affairs Committee; Attitudes toward Israel; Israel; Jews; 1989-1993 PDF IMAGES
63-67	Article The colorings of childhood: On the burdens, and privileges, facing my multi-racial son By David Updike SEE ALSO: Children of interracial marriage; Updike, David; Family; Interracial marriage PDF IMAGES
68-78	Article En route to retreat: Making it to Mepkin Abbey By Frank Lentricchia SEE ALSO: Contemplation; Lentricchia, Frank; Religion; South Carolina; Spiritual retreats PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 109 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Send a letter By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES